Self centeredness v God centeredness Part 2

When we have a self-centred attitude

We treat God like He is our Servant

And we are His Master

A self-centred attitude is expressed like this

‘These are my plans…this is what I want, God bless me, Amen’

I have some news for you

God will not bless our self-centeredness

He will not bless our plans

He will not bless what we want

He will let us make our own plans, and He will let us have what we want, and, He will let us experience the disaster of our self-centered choices

Psalm 81:11-12 ‘…My people would not listen to Me… would not obey Me. So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted’.

Through Moses, God brought His people out of Egypt

By walking, the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land only took a few weeks

All they had to do now was cross the river

They would be home!

God’s people are about to enter the Promised Land

But, the people were self-centred

They had their own plans

They wanted to do things their way

Numbers 14: 1-4

So God let them make their own plans, He let them have what they wanted, and, He let them experience the disaster of their own self-centred choices

Numbers 14: 21-23

Self centeredness not only invites disaster into our life, it also invites God to become our enemy

Numbers 14:34 ‘For forty years…you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have Me against you.’

For 40 years the People of God lived in the deserts till they died…Numbers 32: 13

Through all this, 2 men survived and experienced what God had for them

Caleb and Joshua entered the Promised Land Number 26: 65

Why just them and not all the others?

They were God centered!

Numbers 32: 12 ‘…Caleb…and Joshua … remained loyal to the Lord’.

When we have a God centred attitude

We treat God like He is our Master

And we are His Servants

God-centred attitude is expressed like this ‘What are Your plans for my life…Amen’

A huge Muslim problem: Inbreeding.

Nikolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research
into a little-known problem in the Muslim world: the disastrous results of
Muslim inbreeding brought about by the marriage of first-cousins.

This practice, which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition
since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on
now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world.

This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world, since
Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all matters, including
marriage.

The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually
irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool, including extensive damage to
its intelligence, sanity, and health.

According to Sennels, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred.
In Pakistan, the numbers approach 70%. Even in England, more than half of
Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins, and in Denmark the
number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is around 40%.

The numbers are equally devastating in other important Muslim countries: 67%
in Saudi Arabia, 64% in Jordan, and Kuwait, 63% in Sudan, 60% in Iraq, and
54% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

According to the BBC, this Pakistani, Muslim-inspired inbreeding is thought
to explain the probability that a British Pakistani family is more than 13
times as likely to have children with recessive genetic disorders. While
Pakistanis are responsible for three percent of the births in the UK , they
account for 33% of children with genetic birth defects.

The risks of what are called autosomal recessive disorders such as cystic
fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy is 18 times higher and the risk of
death due to malformations is 10 times higher.

Other negative consequences of inbreeding include a 100 percent increase in
the risk of still births and a 50% increase in the possibility that a child
will die during labor.

Lowered intellectual capacity is another devastating consequence of Muslim
marriage patterns. According to Sennels, research shows that children of
consanguineous marriages lose 10-16 points off their IQ and that social
abilities develop much slower in inbred babies. The risk of having an IQ
lower than 70, the official demarcation for being classified as “retarded,”
increases by an astonishing 400 percent among children of cousin marriages.
(Similar effects were seen in the Pharaonic dynasties in ancient Egypt and
in the British royal family, where inbreeding was the norm for a significant
period of time.)

In Denmark, non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to
fail the intelligence test required for entrance into the Danish army.

Sennels says that “the ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract
thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world.” He points out that the Arab
world translates just 330 books every year, about 20% of what Greece alone
does.
In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated
into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks
have never even read a book.

Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to
succeed in the West. “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces
critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success
in our high-tech knowledge societies.”
Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for
the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce
just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research
measured by articles per million inhabitants.

In Denmark, Sennels’ native country, Muslim children are grossly over
represented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for
Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to
70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an
immigrant background. Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies
indicated that 64% of school children with Arabic parents are still
illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant
drop-out rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.

Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher
the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may
explain why more than 40% of patients in Denmark ‘s biggest ward for
clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background.

The U.S. is not immune. According to Sennels, “One study based on 300,000
Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income,
are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole.”
Sennels concludes:

There is no doubt that the wide spread tradition of first cousin marriages
among Muslims has harmed the gene pool among Muslims. Because Muslims’
religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevents them from
adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done
to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400
years ago are most likely massive. This has produced overwhelming direct and
indirect human and societal consequences.

Bottom line: Islam is not simply a benign and morally equivalent alternative
to the Judeo-Christian tradition. As Sennels points out, the first and
biggest victims of Islam are Muslims. Simple Judeo-Christian compassion for
Muslims and a common-sense desire to protect Western civilization from the
ravages of Islam, dictate a vigorous opposition to the spread of this dark
and dangerous religion. These stark realities must be taken into account
when we establish public polices dealing with immigration from Muslim
countries and the building of mosques in the U.S.

Let’s hope the civilized West and the North Americans wake up before a blind
naiveté about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our
Judeo-Christian culture and our domestic tranquillity.

Self Centred Or God Centred?

If we are to experience God in our Life we must become less self centred more God centred

Self centeredness says: ‘I am only interested in what I want’

Self centeredness produces every kind of trouble in our lives

When God created Mankind he put them in a perfect Garden, in a perfect World

God said they could not eat from the forbidden tree Genesis 2: 16-17

Being tempted, they became self centered and rebelled against God Genesis 3: 1-5

Self centeredness brought…

Unbelief Genesis 3: 6

Separation from God Genesis 3: 8-9, 23

Pain in their bodies Genesis 3: 16a

Marriage problems Genesis 3: 16b

Life-long struggle to survive Genesis 3: 17-19a

Eventual death (for all Mankind) Genesis 3: 19b

God centeredness says: ‘I am only interested in what God wants’

God centeredness produces every kind of blessing in our lives

Illustration: Abraham was just like us

Self centered – ‘I am only interested in what I want’

But, God spoke to him Genesis 12: 1-3

Abraham became God centered – ‘I am only interested in what God wants’

Genesis 12: 4a ‘So Abraham left…’

Romans 4: 11 ‘Abraham is the spiritual father of all believers’

Romans 4: 13 ‘God promised to give the world to Abraham’

This is how you experience God!

Philippians 2:13 ‘For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him’.